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Annie: How She Came to Be

Annie: How She Came to Be

Chown, Linda E.
Best, Abigail R. E.

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798879760255
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 23 2024
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Another fine book from Meat For Tea Press.

Annie, a traveler, arrives from time's nowful shoals, staking her claim at the intersection of mystery and motion. These poems are a song of soft whisper memories. Part confessional, part spell, they hint at an honest path through the life of Linda Chown and her beguiling creation. Somehow, they also manage to be the story of every woman I ever loved. Try holding onto her and she disappears into the puff from whence she came. I will return to these poems again and again, not for answers, but communion. I will return to better understand the questions that matter.

-Jeff Weddle, winner of the Eudora Welty Prize and author of Driving the Lost Highway.

Try not to know too much at the beginning, Linda E. Chown advises in her intimate short poetry collection, Annie: How She Came to Be. Chown's Annie walks through time, Padua, Montana, Kathmandu, Monterey Bay, Paris, Capitola-turns her head toward Cordoba ...to sing life-lifting Saetas... Chown effortlessly pairs unexpected imagery and wording to move the familiar into the profound-She knew answers came out / Delirious and direct like muffins rising... In the tradition of Emily Dickenson and E.E. Cummings, full of gumption and purpose, Chown's work builds a beautiful poetic bridge toward a universal anchoring of the self-[knows] purply that why is not a question / But an answer coming forth deeply.

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